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>"Doug" riseup.net> wrote in message
>news:7743117c-54e1-4171-9327-8e1b21a20f0f@l64g2000hse.googlegroups.com...
>On 1 Jul, 09:10, "nightjar" .me.uk>
>wrote:
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>>> Ischeaemic heart disease 3.5 million
>>> Stroke 3.4 million
>>> COPD 1.8 million
>>> Lower respiratory infections 1.2 million
>>> Lung cancer 0.9 million
>>> Car accident 0.67 million
>>> Stomach cancer 0.65 million
>>> High blood pressure 0.64 million
>>> TB 0.57 million
>>> Suicide 0.5 million
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>>> That makes death in a traffic accident 17%% more likely than dying from
>>> tuberculosis in developed countries.

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>> Death from a traffic crash is the only one where, in many cases, it is
>> caused by an identifiable second person perpetrator. The rest are
>> natural deaths, excluding suicide.

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>No doubt that valuable expert opinion will be called upon by the tobacco
>industry in some of the many actions pending over deaths from lung cancer
>and respiratory diseases.